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Database of Chinese Popular Literature is a specialized large-scale database of ancient books. It collects 10,000 kinds of popular literary works and popular documents and materials of successive dynasties from the Qin-Han Dynasties to the early years of the Republic of China, including novel, script for story-telling, theatrical text, story song, storytelling in southern dialects, common saying story, rare books, and treasure volume. Each work is available as searchable full-text, digitized from a reliable version, and as images from the original scan. The database is fitted up with the characteristic retrieve system and the functional platform. The usually concealed materials of lower level society are fully presented now.

Contains 50- to 100-page self-contained electronic documents--lectures, which are organized into a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series. Each lecture synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by a prominent contributor to the field.

Scopus, launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.

Udndata, an article-specific database was established by UDN Online in February 2001 to provide news articles from five major newspapers published by the United Daily News Group. The newspapers include United daily news, Min sheng daily, United evening news, Economic daily news, and Star news. Also included are several news magazines such as Global view monthly and some Chinese newspapers published outside Taiwan.

Database coverage: 1912- comprises 10 series and the 10 series are further divided into 168 subjects and then 3600 sub-subjects. See the subject navigation on the left. According to industry classification, the yearbooks are classified into 16 industries of geography/ history, politics/ military/ diplomacy, law, economics, finance, construction/ land resource, agriculture, industry, transportation/ post/ telecommunications/ information, domestic and international trade, scientific research achievements, social science research achievements, education, culture/ sport, medicine/ hygiene, character.According to administrative districts, local statistical yearbooks in CYFD is classified into 34 province-level districts. See the district navigation on the left.
Full-text Database collects academic articles published in about 500 important newspapers in China from 2000, updated continuously. By October 1st, 2012, the total article amount is more than 10 million; issued in 10 subject databases: mathematics/physics/mechanics/astronomy, chemistry/metallurgy/environment/mine industry, architecture/energy/traffic/electromechanics, agriculture, medicine & public health, literature/history/philosophy, politics/military affairs/law, education & social sciences, electronic technology & information science, economics & management.

DBLP server provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Initially the server was focused on DataBase systems and Logic Programming (DBLP), now it is gradually being expanded toward other fields of computer science.

Espacenet's worldwide database enables you to search for information about published patent applications from over 90 different countries and regions. Espacenet offers free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide--most of them patent applications rather than granted patents--from 1836 today. Patent applications normally represent the first publication of a new idea, appearing ahead of journal articles and before new products reach the market. Other information includes: patent family information, telling you if similar patents have been claimed in other countries; legal status information, helping you find out whether and in what countries a patent is in force; references to other kinds of technical literature (non-patent literature); citing documents (other documents that have cited the document you are looking at); and links to the European Patent Register for European and Euro-PCT documents. It is possible to print and download documents.

IEEE Expert Now selects the best IEEE educational courses and tutorials from conferences and workshops around the world. Delivered in a series of engaging and highly interactive, online learning courses, these courses have been developed by recognized experts in a wide range of engineering and research technologies.

Presents the Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE), a system developed by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) that helps academic societies create and publish electronic journals. Allows users to browse and search participating journals. Some journals on this site are open access and others are available only by subscription.